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STATE Hir-. HIC- V. . CliTY
HIT7 lJISRY J?. . ZR7
COLUMBIA. H'n 652' Jl
74th Year No. 89 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, December 29, 1981 2 Sections 16 Pages 25 Cents
U. S to press sanctions against Soviets
New York Times
WASHINGTON The Reagan ad-ministration
decided Monday on eco-nomic
and political sanctions
against the Soviet Union for its pur-ported
role in the imposition of mar-tial
law in Poland. An announcement
is expected by President Reagan to-day,
senior administration officials
said.
Reagan, in California, made his
decision after receiving the recom-mendations
of his senior advisers by
phone. Details were not made
known.
The Special Situation Group, head-ed
by Vice President Bush, met at
the White House Monday morning
for 2 hours to consider two dozen
possible actions, one official said.
The recommendations were read to
Reagan Monday afternoon over a
telephone by Bush and Edwin
Meese, the White House counselor,
who participated in the meeting
along with top intelligence officials.
Representatives from the Depart-ments
of State, Defense, Treasury,
rjmmerce and Agriculture also took
part.
The decision on measures against
the Russians was taken during the
weekend, officials said, after receipt
Fnday night of a letter from Soviet
President Leonid Brezhnev. The let-ter
was a response to Reagan's mes-sage
last week that warned the Sovi-ets
of economic and political
sanctions if the repression in Poland
was not eased.
Reagan said Sunday that Brezh-nev's
letter was " negative," and a
ranking State Department official
said Monday that " negative is an un-derstatement
" The official said
Brezhnev, in his letter, not only re-jected
American assertions that
Moscow was largely responsible for
the crackdown but also accused the
United States of fomenting the trou-bles
in Poland.
Administration officials said they
expected the steps against the Soviet
Union to be graduated, giving Sovi-ets
time to avoid stricter measures
such as an embargo on sale of grain
or an end to arms control talks.
The Reagan administration has
decided to levy sanctions, even
though allies are not expected to fol-low
suit and even though the mea-sures
are unlikely to change events
in Poland. But senior officials con-tend
European public opinion is
strong against the crackdown in Po-land,
compelling allied governments
to act.
Europea) governments have said
they would not extend new credits to
the Polish government, but they
have opposed other sanctions.
One senior official said the list of
possible actions discussed by the
Bush group included the following :
v An indefinite suspension of talks
with the Russians about a new grain
sales agreement for 1983. The two
sides are operating on a one- ye- ar
accord by which the Russians can
buy up to 23 milhon tons ( 20 7 million
metric tons) of gram They have
contracted for 11 milhon tons ( 9.9
million metric tons )
w Refusal to sell the Soviet Union
technology for building a natural gas
pipeline to Western Europe The ad-ministration
opposed this pipeline
because of fears the Europeans
would become dependent on Soviet
energy supplies
--- A ban or tighter restrictions on
the sale of high technology equip-ment,
including machinery and tools
for oil and natural gas excavation
- Refusal to renew a maritime
agreement, due to expire at the end
of the year, that permits Soviet ships
to enter 40 US ports.
k-- Cancellation of landing rights
for Aeroflot, the Soviet airline.
Several officials said at this tune
they did not believe Reagan wanted
to take such political steps as
cancelling the Geneva talks on nu-clear
forces in Europe.
But there may be some move to
draw U N attention to the situation
m Poland, without seeking any for-mal
action in the Security Council
The United States is also likely to
raise the matter m the Madrid meet-ing
on security and cooperation in
Europe The conference is folljwing
up on the Helsinki Final Act v, f 1975
in which civil liberties are guar-anteed
as well as non- intervent- ion in
other countries affairs
IiistgM
Taking
the Lord
overseas
Few are called,
fewer chosen:
Missionaries
on the decline
By Chris Edwards
Missourian staff writer
" Yea cannot present the hungry
and famished masses with God.
Their God is their bread."
Mohandas K. Gandhi
India, 1945. The carnage of World
War II is over. The sunset of the
British empire is at hand.
The Rev. Robert V. and Martha
Marble arrive by troop ship in a
country struggling for its freedom.
The Methodist missionaries travel
on to Baihar, a remote village deep
m the jungles of central India.
The Marbles' marching orders
are " to win the world in one gener-ation,"
a cause advanced by John
R. Mott, chairman of the Interna-tional
Missionary Council.
For a time, the Marbles share a
house with an elderly British mis-sionary
couple who have lived in
Baihar for 45 years. The mission in-cludes
two houses, a church for 50
or 60 families, a school and hostels
for the students who board at the
mission.
Several thousand Indians live in
and around Baihar. Most are Hindu
or Muslim; some are Sikh. All but a
handful are poor. No more than 5
percent of the villagers are Chris-tian.
The Marbles, like whites in
America's Deep South, find them-selves
in a position of privilege. In
railway stations, the Western man
enters before Indians standing in
line. One task of privilege strikes
Robert and Martha Marble
Marble as particularly distasteful
He finds himself a temporary and
reluctant tax collector for the Brit-ish
empire
India, Aug. 15, 1947. Under the
leadersmp of Gandhi, the country
gains its hard- wo- n independence.
The British influence recedes, but
the Marbles' 20- ye- ar stmt in Baihar
wears on.
The Marbles greet two sons in
Baihar, Max, now of -- Columbia, and
Bill, now of California The cultiva-tion
of a day- to- d- ay food source is
time- consumi- ng. Food is grown on
the mission farm and laboriously
canned or dehydrated. Sometimes
the couple travels to nearby vil-lages
in hopes of spreading Chris-tianity.
The attempts are not highly
successful.
The message they bring some-times
gets garbled An unemployed
Indian man, for example, ap- -
proaches Marble for help one day.
" I want a job," the man says " And
I want to become a Christian "
Marble, aware of the man's confu-sion,
says he will see about the job,
but suggests they had better talk a
bit about the man becoming a
Christian.
Similar mixed messages are ex-changed
as Marble travels to near-by
villages in the mission jeep.
Sometimes, he says, the medium is
indeed the message.
" What you're really telling them
is that Christianity is a jeep," Mar-ble
says from the couple's Colum-bia
apartment at 217 W. Broadway.
" You think you're telling them, ' Je--
n The
changing
role
. I
of missionaries
jus Christ died for you,' but they
don't hear that they hear the
jeep."
The Marbles believe the relative
affluence of the missionary erects a
never- bridge- d, invisible barrier to
the spread of Christianity by West-erners
Sometimes, m India and
elsewhere, the message misses the
heart and strikes the stomach in-stead.
" Christian missions presented
hope for a new kind of life," Marble
says of the missionary movement
throughout the world. " Sometimes
that hope is religious, sometime so-ciological,
sometimes economic. In
our naivete, we attached more reli-gious
significance to conversions
than we had a right to "
DAnn LimoM photos I
The Marbles feared that this delicate item would be de-stroyed
in transport. The entire ship is made from rice straw
glued to black cloth.
Today, the missionary era the
couple helped advance is slowly
fading away. But the Marbles have
no regrets about their years in In-dia
They feel their role, and the
role of career missionaries every-where,
was to illustrate Christian
compassion for their fellow man.
In this four- pa- rt series, the Co-lumbia
Missourian looks at the
changing role of missionaries
Wednesday's Insight will explore
today's mission force On Thurs-day,
the philosophical chasm will
be examined And on Friday, the
future of mission work will be dis-cussed.
When the Marbles moved from
Baihar after 20 years, they also en-joyed
watching their adopted coun-try
grow
India, 1956 With a jolt of culture
( See NUMBER, Page 8A)
Some social issues
im sports explored
Beginning Wednesday, Missourian
sportswnter Alan Cronk reports on
three social issues that often are lost
among the scores and statistics. The
series opens with a report on what
some University coaches and play-ers
think of sports as a character- buildin- g
experience. Next comes a
report on a practice in football
known as " stacking," in which white
players are used more often than
blacks in positions that coaches
think require more intelligence. The
series concludes Friday with a re-port
on sports as a form of art
Sit ltwii
9 a. m. County Court meets,
court chambers, fifth floor, County- Cit- y
building.
7: 5 pjn. Public meeting to dis-cuss
the city's possible purchase of
the Columbia Baptist Temple, Co-lumbia
Public Library.
i'
U. S. infant's birth marks 4day of hope'
NORFOLK, Va ( UPI) The nation's first test- tub- e
baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, was reported
" perfectly healthy" Monday night at Norfolk Gen-eral
Hospital.
A Westminster, Mass., schoolteacher gave birth
to the 5- pou- nd,
12- oun- ce ( 2.59- kilogra- m) infant
Monday morning.
" The baby cried right away, and that was very
assuring," said Dr. Mason Andrews, who deuv- ere- d
the infant " It was a relief to know that this
was a normal baby."
The mother, Judith Carr, 28, was fine after de-livery,
Andrews said. The father, Roger Carr, 30,
is a mechanical engineer in Westminster.
Elizabeth's birth marked the Umted States'
first successful " m vitro" conception. The process
involves fertilizing a mature egg from a woman's
ovary with a man's sperm m a laboratory dish,
then re- implant- ing the fertilized egg in the wom-an's
womb. More than 20 such infants have been
bom in England and Australia
" I think this is a day of hope," said Dr. Howard
Jones, co- direc- tor of the test- tub- e baby clinic at
Eastern Virginia Medical School, where Mrs.
Carr was impregnated.
Jones said another five women treated at the
clinic are expecting children conceived through in
vitro fertilization but he did not disclose due
dates.
Dr. Fred Worth, the attending pediatrician, said
Elizabeth " already had her first feeding and took
an ounce of formula very well. She's perfectly
healthy."
Mrs. Carr, who j'cined the test- tub- e baby pro-gram
last January, was impregnated in April, 48
hours after the mature egg was removed from her
ovary.
Her fallopian tubes previously had been remov-ed
because of complications in unsuccessful, natu-ral
pregnancies. A Caesarean delivery was re-quired
because of the condition of her uterus.
Andrews said doctors last week had decided to
perform the Caesarean when the appropriate time
came. Mrs. Carr did not go into labor.
In vitro fertilization, pioneered by British Drs.
Robert G. Edwards and Patrick Steptce, is m
widespread use in England and Australia. The
world's first test- tub- e baby, Louise Brown, was
born at the Edwards- tey. u- c -- " v. in Oldham, En-gland,
on July 25, 1978.
Although Elizabeth is the first test- tub- e baby
born in the United States, she is not the first born
to an American mother. On Oct. 2, an 8- po- und
( 3 6- kflog-ram)
girl named Samantha Steel was
delivered by Caesarean section in England by
Steptoe.
The in vitro procedure has stirred some protest
from religious groups who argue that such fertib- zatio- n
is tantamount to tampering with human
life.
Jones, asked about the religious concerns, said,
" I understand and respect the concerns with those
who have moral or religious objections "
He estimated that there are 600,000 women in
the United States who are unable to have children
because of damaged or removed fallopian tubes
He said the in vitro fertilization process is the oily
known way for them to have children
He added that there are an estimated 2.5 milhon
couples who are " involuntarily infertile" who also
may benefit from the research that has resulted
from the procedure.
Judges
slice state
nine ways
10th District put
with 8th District
JEFFERSON CITY, ( UPI) A
panel of three federal judges, with
one dissenting, Monday sliced Mis-souri
into nine congressional dis-tricts
and filed the map with the L S.
District Court
UJS District judges Floyd R. Gib-son
and Scott O Wright, both of Kan-sas
Qty, and H Kenneth Wangehn
of St. Louis met privately at 11 a m
Monday to begin work on the map.
By 5 pm, Gibson and Wright had
reached agreement, with Wangehn
dissenting.
At least two members of the panel
were required to agree before the
plan could be filed with the court and
Missouri Secretary of State James
C Kirkpatnck
Gibson said the General Assem-bly,
if dissatisfied with the panel's
map, still has the opportunity to take
up redistncting in the 1982 regular
session that begins Jan 6 He said
any redistncting plan approved by
the General Assembly and the gov-ernor
would take legal precedence
over the judges' map
The plan maintains the 1st, 2nd
and 3rd districts in the St Louis met-ropolitan
area but revises their
boundaries Congressman Richard
Gephardt, a St. Louis Democrat who
represents the 3rd, and Congress-man
William Emerson, a DeSoto Re-publican
representing the 10th, are
thrown together m the new 3rd
Emerson's 10th District was abo-lished
and merged with the 8th Dis-trict,
represented by Wendell Bailey .
a Republican from Willow Springs.
The 8th District now includes all of
the Bootheel and only a portion of its
original south- centr- al Missouri terri-tory
The 1st District, represented bv St
( See REMAP, Page 8A)
Troupe sets
sights on
purchase
of church
By Terry Stanton
Missourian staff writer
The Columbia Entertainment
Company needs a home. And when
the lights go on at the Cit Council
meeting Monday, the non- prof- it the-ater
group may find one
Members of the CEC, homeless
since June, when Columbia College
terminated the community theater
group's lease to use Launer Auditori-um,
hope the council will vote Mon-day
to purchase the Columbia Bap-tist
Temple property The company
thinks the buildings would be a good
place to call home
The two buildings a sanctuary --
educational structure and a parson-age
at Broadway and Anderson Ave-nue
became available at a bar-gain
price of $ 149,500 two weeks ago
when banks foreclosed the church s
mortgage. The congregation appar-ently
had become too small to sup-port
the faahty in the last two years
The council wasted no time in tak-ing
up the issue of buying the real es-tate.
At its Dec 21 meeting, it passed
a resolution to consider acquiring
the church for " recreational, educa-tional
and community purposes "
Last week, in a letter to residents
near the church. First Ward Coun-cilman
Al Tacker said the buildings
could be used for arts, theater, cultu-ral,
day- ca- r -- nd i. r7 citizen ac-tivities
Tacker has invited the public to at- -
( See GROUPS, Page 8A)

STATE Hir-. HIC- V. . CliTY
HIT7 lJISRY J?. . ZR7
COLUMBIA. H'n 652' Jl
74th Year No. 89 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, December 29, 1981 2 Sections 16 Pages 25 Cents
U. S to press sanctions against Soviets
New York Times
WASHINGTON The Reagan ad-ministration
decided Monday on eco-nomic
and political sanctions
against the Soviet Union for its pur-ported
role in the imposition of mar-tial
law in Poland. An announcement
is expected by President Reagan to-day,
senior administration officials
said.
Reagan, in California, made his
decision after receiving the recom-mendations
of his senior advisers by
phone. Details were not made
known.
The Special Situation Group, head-ed
by Vice President Bush, met at
the White House Monday morning
for 2 hours to consider two dozen
possible actions, one official said.
The recommendations were read to
Reagan Monday afternoon over a
telephone by Bush and Edwin
Meese, the White House counselor,
who participated in the meeting
along with top intelligence officials.
Representatives from the Depart-ments
of State, Defense, Treasury,
rjmmerce and Agriculture also took
part.
The decision on measures against
the Russians was taken during the
weekend, officials said, after receipt
Fnday night of a letter from Soviet
President Leonid Brezhnev. The let-ter
was a response to Reagan's mes-sage
last week that warned the Sovi-ets
of economic and political
sanctions if the repression in Poland
was not eased.
Reagan said Sunday that Brezh-nev's
letter was " negative," and a
ranking State Department official
said Monday that " negative is an un-derstatement
" The official said
Brezhnev, in his letter, not only re-jected
American assertions that
Moscow was largely responsible for
the crackdown but also accused the
United States of fomenting the trou-bles
in Poland.
Administration officials said they
expected the steps against the Soviet
Union to be graduated, giving Sovi-ets
time to avoid stricter measures
such as an embargo on sale of grain
or an end to arms control talks.
The Reagan administration has
decided to levy sanctions, even
though allies are not expected to fol-low
suit and even though the mea-sures
are unlikely to change events
in Poland. But senior officials con-tend
European public opinion is
strong against the crackdown in Po-land,
compelling allied governments
to act.
Europea) governments have said
they would not extend new credits to
the Polish government, but they
have opposed other sanctions.
One senior official said the list of
possible actions discussed by the
Bush group included the following :
v An indefinite suspension of talks
with the Russians about a new grain
sales agreement for 1983. The two
sides are operating on a one- ye- ar
accord by which the Russians can
buy up to 23 milhon tons ( 20 7 million
metric tons) of gram They have
contracted for 11 milhon tons ( 9.9
million metric tons )
w Refusal to sell the Soviet Union
technology for building a natural gas
pipeline to Western Europe The ad-ministration
opposed this pipeline
because of fears the Europeans
would become dependent on Soviet
energy supplies
--- A ban or tighter restrictions on
the sale of high technology equip-ment,
including machinery and tools
for oil and natural gas excavation
- Refusal to renew a maritime
agreement, due to expire at the end
of the year, that permits Soviet ships
to enter 40 US ports.
k-- Cancellation of landing rights
for Aeroflot, the Soviet airline.
Several officials said at this tune
they did not believe Reagan wanted
to take such political steps as
cancelling the Geneva talks on nu-clear
forces in Europe.
But there may be some move to
draw U N attention to the situation
m Poland, without seeking any for-mal
action in the Security Council
The United States is also likely to
raise the matter m the Madrid meet-ing
on security and cooperation in
Europe The conference is folljwing
up on the Helsinki Final Act v, f 1975
in which civil liberties are guar-anteed
as well as non- intervent- ion in
other countries affairs
IiistgM
Taking
the Lord
overseas
Few are called,
fewer chosen:
Missionaries
on the decline
By Chris Edwards
Missourian staff writer
" Yea cannot present the hungry
and famished masses with God.
Their God is their bread."
Mohandas K. Gandhi
India, 1945. The carnage of World
War II is over. The sunset of the
British empire is at hand.
The Rev. Robert V. and Martha
Marble arrive by troop ship in a
country struggling for its freedom.
The Methodist missionaries travel
on to Baihar, a remote village deep
m the jungles of central India.
The Marbles' marching orders
are " to win the world in one gener-ation,"
a cause advanced by John
R. Mott, chairman of the Interna-tional
Missionary Council.
For a time, the Marbles share a
house with an elderly British mis-sionary
couple who have lived in
Baihar for 45 years. The mission in-cludes
two houses, a church for 50
or 60 families, a school and hostels
for the students who board at the
mission.
Several thousand Indians live in
and around Baihar. Most are Hindu
or Muslim; some are Sikh. All but a
handful are poor. No more than 5
percent of the villagers are Chris-tian.
The Marbles, like whites in
America's Deep South, find them-selves
in a position of privilege. In
railway stations, the Western man
enters before Indians standing in
line. One task of privilege strikes
Robert and Martha Marble
Marble as particularly distasteful
He finds himself a temporary and
reluctant tax collector for the Brit-ish
empire
India, Aug. 15, 1947. Under the
leadersmp of Gandhi, the country
gains its hard- wo- n independence.
The British influence recedes, but
the Marbles' 20- ye- ar stmt in Baihar
wears on.
The Marbles greet two sons in
Baihar, Max, now of -- Columbia, and
Bill, now of California The cultiva-tion
of a day- to- d- ay food source is
time- consumi- ng. Food is grown on
the mission farm and laboriously
canned or dehydrated. Sometimes
the couple travels to nearby vil-lages
in hopes of spreading Chris-tianity.
The attempts are not highly
successful.
The message they bring some-times
gets garbled An unemployed
Indian man, for example, ap- -
proaches Marble for help one day.
" I want a job," the man says " And
I want to become a Christian "
Marble, aware of the man's confu-sion,
says he will see about the job,
but suggests they had better talk a
bit about the man becoming a
Christian.
Similar mixed messages are ex-changed
as Marble travels to near-by
villages in the mission jeep.
Sometimes, he says, the medium is
indeed the message.
" What you're really telling them
is that Christianity is a jeep," Mar-ble
says from the couple's Colum-bia
apartment at 217 W. Broadway.
" You think you're telling them, ' Je--
n The
changing
role
. I
of missionaries
jus Christ died for you,' but they
don't hear that they hear the
jeep."
The Marbles believe the relative
affluence of the missionary erects a
never- bridge- d, invisible barrier to
the spread of Christianity by West-erners
Sometimes, m India and
elsewhere, the message misses the
heart and strikes the stomach in-stead.
" Christian missions presented
hope for a new kind of life," Marble
says of the missionary movement
throughout the world. " Sometimes
that hope is religious, sometime so-ciological,
sometimes economic. In
our naivete, we attached more reli-gious
significance to conversions
than we had a right to "
DAnn LimoM photos I
The Marbles feared that this delicate item would be de-stroyed
in transport. The entire ship is made from rice straw
glued to black cloth.
Today, the missionary era the
couple helped advance is slowly
fading away. But the Marbles have
no regrets about their years in In-dia
They feel their role, and the
role of career missionaries every-where,
was to illustrate Christian
compassion for their fellow man.
In this four- pa- rt series, the Co-lumbia
Missourian looks at the
changing role of missionaries
Wednesday's Insight will explore
today's mission force On Thurs-day,
the philosophical chasm will
be examined And on Friday, the
future of mission work will be dis-cussed.
When the Marbles moved from
Baihar after 20 years, they also en-joyed
watching their adopted coun-try
grow
India, 1956 With a jolt of culture
( See NUMBER, Page 8A)
Some social issues
im sports explored
Beginning Wednesday, Missourian
sportswnter Alan Cronk reports on
three social issues that often are lost
among the scores and statistics. The
series opens with a report on what
some University coaches and play-ers
think of sports as a character- buildin- g
experience. Next comes a
report on a practice in football
known as " stacking," in which white
players are used more often than
blacks in positions that coaches
think require more intelligence. The
series concludes Friday with a re-port
on sports as a form of art
Sit ltwii
9 a. m. County Court meets,
court chambers, fifth floor, County- Cit- y
building.
7: 5 pjn. Public meeting to dis-cuss
the city's possible purchase of
the Columbia Baptist Temple, Co-lumbia
Public Library.
i'
U. S. infant's birth marks 4day of hope'
NORFOLK, Va ( UPI) The nation's first test- tub- e
baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, was reported
" perfectly healthy" Monday night at Norfolk Gen-eral
Hospital.
A Westminster, Mass., schoolteacher gave birth
to the 5- pou- nd,
12- oun- ce ( 2.59- kilogra- m) infant
Monday morning.
" The baby cried right away, and that was very
assuring," said Dr. Mason Andrews, who deuv- ere- d
the infant " It was a relief to know that this
was a normal baby."
The mother, Judith Carr, 28, was fine after de-livery,
Andrews said. The father, Roger Carr, 30,
is a mechanical engineer in Westminster.
Elizabeth's birth marked the Umted States'
first successful " m vitro" conception. The process
involves fertilizing a mature egg from a woman's
ovary with a man's sperm m a laboratory dish,
then re- implant- ing the fertilized egg in the wom-an's
womb. More than 20 such infants have been
bom in England and Australia
" I think this is a day of hope," said Dr. Howard
Jones, co- direc- tor of the test- tub- e baby clinic at
Eastern Virginia Medical School, where Mrs.
Carr was impregnated.
Jones said another five women treated at the
clinic are expecting children conceived through in
vitro fertilization but he did not disclose due
dates.
Dr. Fred Worth, the attending pediatrician, said
Elizabeth " already had her first feeding and took
an ounce of formula very well. She's perfectly
healthy."
Mrs. Carr, who j'cined the test- tub- e baby pro-gram
last January, was impregnated in April, 48
hours after the mature egg was removed from her
ovary.
Her fallopian tubes previously had been remov-ed
because of complications in unsuccessful, natu-ral
pregnancies. A Caesarean delivery was re-quired
because of the condition of her uterus.
Andrews said doctors last week had decided to
perform the Caesarean when the appropriate time
came. Mrs. Carr did not go into labor.
In vitro fertilization, pioneered by British Drs.
Robert G. Edwards and Patrick Steptce, is m
widespread use in England and Australia. The
world's first test- tub- e baby, Louise Brown, was
born at the Edwards- tey. u- c -- " v. in Oldham, En-gland,
on July 25, 1978.
Although Elizabeth is the first test- tub- e baby
born in the United States, she is not the first born
to an American mother. On Oct. 2, an 8- po- und
( 3 6- kflog-ram)
girl named Samantha Steel was
delivered by Caesarean section in England by
Steptoe.
The in vitro procedure has stirred some protest
from religious groups who argue that such fertib- zatio- n
is tantamount to tampering with human
life.
Jones, asked about the religious concerns, said,
" I understand and respect the concerns with those
who have moral or religious objections "
He estimated that there are 600,000 women in
the United States who are unable to have children
because of damaged or removed fallopian tubes
He said the in vitro fertilization process is the oily
known way for them to have children
He added that there are an estimated 2.5 milhon
couples who are " involuntarily infertile" who also
may benefit from the research that has resulted
from the procedure.
Judges
slice state
nine ways
10th District put
with 8th District
JEFFERSON CITY, ( UPI) A
panel of three federal judges, with
one dissenting, Monday sliced Mis-souri
into nine congressional dis-tricts
and filed the map with the L S.
District Court
UJS District judges Floyd R. Gib-son
and Scott O Wright, both of Kan-sas
Qty, and H Kenneth Wangehn
of St. Louis met privately at 11 a m
Monday to begin work on the map.
By 5 pm, Gibson and Wright had
reached agreement, with Wangehn
dissenting.
At least two members of the panel
were required to agree before the
plan could be filed with the court and
Missouri Secretary of State James
C Kirkpatnck
Gibson said the General Assem-bly,
if dissatisfied with the panel's
map, still has the opportunity to take
up redistncting in the 1982 regular
session that begins Jan 6 He said
any redistncting plan approved by
the General Assembly and the gov-ernor
would take legal precedence
over the judges' map
The plan maintains the 1st, 2nd
and 3rd districts in the St Louis met-ropolitan
area but revises their
boundaries Congressman Richard
Gephardt, a St. Louis Democrat who
represents the 3rd, and Congress-man
William Emerson, a DeSoto Re-publican
representing the 10th, are
thrown together m the new 3rd
Emerson's 10th District was abo-lished
and merged with the 8th Dis-trict,
represented by Wendell Bailey .
a Republican from Willow Springs.
The 8th District now includes all of
the Bootheel and only a portion of its
original south- centr- al Missouri terri-tory
The 1st District, represented bv St
( See REMAP, Page 8A)
Troupe sets
sights on
purchase
of church
By Terry Stanton
Missourian staff writer
The Columbia Entertainment
Company needs a home. And when
the lights go on at the Cit Council
meeting Monday, the non- prof- it the-ater
group may find one
Members of the CEC, homeless
since June, when Columbia College
terminated the community theater
group's lease to use Launer Auditori-um,
hope the council will vote Mon-day
to purchase the Columbia Bap-tist
Temple property The company
thinks the buildings would be a good
place to call home
The two buildings a sanctuary --
educational structure and a parson-age
at Broadway and Anderson Ave-nue
became available at a bar-gain
price of $ 149,500 two weeks ago
when banks foreclosed the church s
mortgage. The congregation appar-ently
had become too small to sup-port
the faahty in the last two years
The council wasted no time in tak-ing
up the issue of buying the real es-tate.
At its Dec 21 meeting, it passed
a resolution to consider acquiring
the church for " recreational, educa-tional
and community purposes "
Last week, in a letter to residents
near the church. First Ward Coun-cilman
Al Tacker said the buildings
could be used for arts, theater, cultu-ral,
day- ca- r -- nd i. r7 citizen ac-tivities
Tacker has invited the public to at- -
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